#spirit

Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly. ↗

— Steven James

#faith

Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. ↗

— Aberjhani

#classic-quotes #faith #grace #hope #ignorance

Religion became an end, rather than a means, a substitute for God. Until alcoholism intervened and forced the issue: God, or religion? – p. 125 ↗

— Ray A.

#religion #spirituality #faith

It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day. The natural philosopher walks amid enigmas, always striving to understand and always half-understanding. He learns to believe what he does not understand, and that is a step on the road to faith. ↗

— Jan Potocki

#faith #ignorance #science #spiritual-wisdom #unbelief

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom," says Paul. And we are most in line with the Spirit, most faithfully obedient, when instead of trying to manipulate people into faith, we simply live in that freedom and let the Spirit do the work of transformation. ↗

— Mark Galli

#faithfulness #freedom #holy-spirit #faith

For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Christianity as it comes to expression in the three “only's” should have no place in the Catholic Church. Accepted as basic and ultimate formulas of Christianity, they do not have to lead a person out of the Catholic Church. . . . They can call the attention of the Catholic church again and again to the fact that grace alone and faith alone really are what saves, and that with all our maneuvering through the history of dogma and the teaching office, we Catholic Christians must find our way back to the sources again and again, back to the primary origins of Holy Scripture and all the more so of the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#ecumenism #evangelicalism #faith-alone #grace-alone #salvation

La fe y el amor son el conjunto perfecto para recibir el abrazo de Dios diariamente en nuestras vidas ↗

— Theiska Castillo Medina

#inspirational #religious-faith #spanish #faith

There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#faith-in-god #god #peace #positive-thinking #spirituality

Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator. ↗

— Eben Alexander III

#near-death-experience #spiritual-growth #death

After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#spirituality #travel #experience